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Michelle Obama, Beyoncé and More Stars Share Meaningful Words of Wisdom on Life, Love and Self-Care

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Dec 20, 2019 4:08 pm·

By Leanne Aciz-Stanton

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Aisha Tyler

“When we found out that [getting pregnant] was going to be difficult to impossible, it really was a choice to stop. I feel like I wanted families, couples to know that it was a valid choice not to get on this crazy merry-go-round of IVF and tens and tens of thousands of dollars. … I wanted people to feel — men and women — it’s OK to say, ‘I love my marriage, I love my life, I choose not to have children.”

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Beyonce Stars Share Meaningful Words of Wisdom on Life Love and Self-Care

Beyoncé

Speaking with Elle magazine she said, “Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health — take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. The world will see you the way you see you and treat you the way you treat yourself.”

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Cameron Diaz

“It’s so much more work to have children. To have lives besides your own that you are responsible for — I didn’t take that on. That did make things easier for me. A baby — that’s all day, every day for eighteen years … Not having a baby might really make things easier, but that doesn’t make it an easy decision. I like protecting people, but I was never drawn to being a mother.”

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Diane von Furstenberg

“It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself,” she told Elle magazine in 2014.

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Emma Watson

From Into the Gloss, “I have a bath every single day of my life. And if I can have two or three — amazing. Nothing terrible is going to happen in the bath, so I always find time for that. I’ll take phone conversations in the bath, anything.”

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Gisele Bundchen

“After adding everyone’s schedule on the calendar, I make sure that every day I have some sacred time for myself, so I can recharge. I noticed every time I felt overwhelmed I would hold my breath. I had to learn to stop, relax and take long deep breaths and within seconds I would feel more clear and ready to deal with the situation in a more loving way. Meditation also has been a wonderful tool. I notice that when I don’t take the time to do it, I am not as centered, patient or clear.”

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Jennifer Aniston

“I don’t like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women — that you’ve failed yourself as a female because you haven’t procreated. I don’t think it’s fair. You may not have a child come out of your vagina, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t mothering — dogs, friends, friends’ children,” she told Allure magazine in 2014.

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Kate Winslet

“Nobody is perfect. I just don’t believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying ‘This is who I am, and look at me not being perfect!’ I’m proud of that.”

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Kerry Washington

“Sometimes, when we’re feeling challenged in life, we feel a pull to isolate, and for me, part of the joy of being a wife, a mother, and in a cast of friends is allowing myself to be in spaces of love. So being open to that love … Then, for me, self-love is like: Am I sleeping enough? Eating well? Not: Am I eating well to be able to fit into my skinny jeans? But: Am I eating well to be healthy and strong? And to acknowledge the good, because there is always a lot of good.”

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Leah Remini

“It’s OK to do nothing, if you can, once in a while. It’s OK to not be perfect, to not get it all done… take care of yourself. Do what recharges you. Lessons I’m learning in my old age.”

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Michelle Obama

“Sometimes, I give myself a break. So, I will retreat a moment from the fray, just to breathe. Because what I’ve learned is that my immediate reaction cannot be the deciding reaction. So, sometimes I just sort of step back a second, and while I’m stepping back, I talk. I reach out to my friends, my mom, my girlfriends; I vent, I release, I have sounding boards, I get pep talks from colleagues and staff, and then I go back in … We each have to find our own coping mechanisms — and that isn’t just in terms of the hesitation of finding out own voice, but in how we deal with our own stress,” she told Women’s Health in 2012.

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Tracee Ellis Ross

“Exercise helps make my body strong enough to do what I set my heart and mind to. I carry myself differently when I feel strong. I’ve always worked out and been active, and it’s one of the ways I care for myself, along with meditation, baths, eating beautiful things that make me happy, being silent and being with friends and family,” she wrote on Instagram in 2018.

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Viola Davis

“With women, we are usually the caretakers of everyone except for ourselves. If I don’t take care of myself and I’m taking care of my daughter or my husband or whatever — I’m running on fumes. I have nothing left to give. Nothing. But when I take the time to take care of myself, to go to the doctor, go to a spa, get a deep-tissue massage, get adjusted by chiropractor … I feel like I can face life with a renewed vigor and renewed passion.”

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